Use After Free Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.79% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-FIREFOXESR-354815
  • published11 Jun 2018
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5447  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 firefox-esr to version 45.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An out-of-bounds read during the processing of glyph widths during text layout. This results in a potentially exploitable crash and could allow an attacker to read otherwise inaccessible memory. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.